“They put you in a van and keep you there for hours, until they fill it like a slave ship. We were stuck in there for two hours, handcuffed… it’s like a police state.” A Manhattan lawyer on his experiences after being arrested for smoking a joint on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen.

Bristol’s Veale Wasbrough has been hit by the defection of its head of employment and a team of lawyers to rival Bevan Ashford. Highly-rated partner Sarah Lamont is taking an associate, Anne Palmer, and two assistants, Tim Woodward and Bruce Rossington, to Bevan Ashford. Lamont will be reunited with two former Veale Wasbrough colleagues, corporate […]

A new mediation initiative is likely to impact on a huge chunk of City firms’ litigation work, says Rob Mendick. City pages edited by Richard Tyler. The City has traditionally regarded alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in the same light as pro bono work – worthy, but peripheral. But it can no longer afford to be […]

I have recently received SIF In Focus for November 1998. My partners and I are astonished to see this crude propaganda campaign. Please would you explain to me at, whose cost this material is prepared, printed and published. Is this a charge to the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (SIF)? If so, how can this cost be […]

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